Two plays this summer!
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
Age Advisory: 13+ for some strong language and adult themes
“…a sassy, hold-on-to-your-seats theatrical adventure…[Gunderson] has created a play that is wonderfully wild and raucous… It’s a wild ride.”
— Cincinnati Enquirer
125 N Washington St, St Croix Falls, WI
St. Croix Festival Theatre
Featured at Fringe Festival 2026
1420 S. Washington Ave. Minneapolis
The Southern Theater
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5:30 PM
7 PM - BFF
10 PM - BFF
8:30 PM
4 PM
BFF: Bring a Friend for Free
St. Croix Festival Theatre
125 N Washington St, St Croix Falls, WI
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This is a re-imagining of Sophie Treadwell’s expressionistic play about a woman trapped in a mechanical society that dictates how women should act and live. It turns out that we’re all a part of this machine we call a society and an economy. It also turns out that it's no way to live. It was 1928 when Machinal premiered on Broadway, only a year after the events that inspired it.
Sophie Treadwell was a journalist covering what became a media circus — the trial and electrocution of Ruth Snyder. The industrial age and mechanization was reaching a dehumanizing zenith. It was a feeling not unfamiliar to those living a hundred years later. A long-time member of the company, this is Renee Hatton's directorial debut!
We use the actor’s physicality to create visceral performances that spark the imagination and ignite conversation.
By drawing upon the imaginative and expressive power of the actor’s body we seek to explore the human psyche to create performances that allow audiences to derive new meaning from spoken and unspoken language.
We seek to tell universal human stories by innovative means to spark the imagination and help audiences better understand themselves and the world around them.
Remembering a play about remembering
An Iliad by Lisa Peterson
and Denis O’Hare
September 2025 — The Southern Theater
Directed by Kym Longhi, with Nick Miller as The Muse and Erik Hoover in a tour de force performance as The Poet. An Iliad is a modern-day retelling of Homer’s classic. Poetry and humor, the ancient tale of the Trojan War and the modern world collide in this captivating theatrical experience. The setting is simple: the empty theater. The time is now: the present moment. The lone figure onstage is a storyteller—possibly Homer, possibly one of the many bards who followed in his footsteps. He is fated to tell this story throughout history.
“An enthralling theatrical experience, unique and classical at the same time.”
— John Townsend